Mao Zedong (1943 to 1976)

If you are a sexual sadist, or a psychopath, then perhaps, China will the best place for you to have ever lived.

Marquis de Sade, the French nobleman, lamented the European civility, its wanton and excessive respect for human rights and freedom, and have throughout his novels and short stories, sprinkled his tales with his nostalgia for China, where humans can be tortured for sport, killed mercilessly, not to mention the thousand ways in which those subjects were killed and their macabre spectacles turned into general entertainment for the public; where the most ruthless tyrants demanded the most self-ingratiating royalty and where absolute obedience of the inferior to the superior has been perfected to an art form, through thousands of years of slavery, breeding and discipline, murders, rapes, and genocide.

“It is only now that I have come to understand that I have been dwelling in a land where people have been eating people for the last four thousand years. …” ~~ Lu Xun 魯迅

Imagine the chicken you eat for dinner. Do you have any sympathy for having eaten the poor chicken, having subjected it to slaughter, then cooked, boiled or fried, and its severed flesh served to you on a platter? Imagine the insects you have crushed with your car wheels on your way to work. Have you ever noticed its existence and its immediate death?

This is how the Chinese feels toward other Chinese when they see human suffering. And you see this everyday in China, where a girl can be crushed under a truck, everything from her waist down smeared out with nothing left but a miasma of blood and gristle, and her upper body is still moving, her hands flapping and her face contorted in pain and her mouth so formed to gurgitate an animal sound mixed with pleading for help. While the Chinese around her go about their lives not even paying attention to her. Or where a murderer armed with a kitchen knife goes on a rampage slicing at a person or two, and there is an entire crowd of people, sometimes hundreds of people, forming a great circle around the perpetrator and the victims, merely standing there, gawking and chattering, as if they were watching a soap opera.

This is the reality of the Chinese national trait. And this has been going on for thousands of years.

And by understanding those salient Chinese national traits, you will understand why Mao Zedong, the Chinese emperor who caused the death of millions of its own people through starvation, torture, imprisonment, exile, etc., are still revered in China today.

There is a general yearning for slavery among the Chinese people that normal western human beings simply cannot comprehend. 4000 years of slavery at the hands of political strongmen are enough time to have caused genetic mutation among its docile populace.

The Chinese—in their twisted, masochistic, psychopathic way, in a sense—can, therefore, make the best slaves if subjugated correctly. It just takes a superior man of high charisma or a small selected superior race of men to conquer and enslave them.

“The Chinese people do not need freedom. This is the best era of our times.” ~~ Li Zhi 李志

“It would take 300 years of colonialism. In 100 years of colonialism, Hong Kong has changed to what we see today. With China being so big, of course it would require 300 years as a colony for it to be able to transform into how Hong Kong is today. I have my doubts as to whether 300 years would be enough.” ~~ Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波

All of the following information are extracted from The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao’s Personal Physician by Dr. Li Zhisui 李志绥

Throughout his reign of terror over China for some odd 30 years, Mao Zedong has had sex with up to a few thousand different women. The older he became, the more promiscuous he became. Nearly everyday he would be escorted with a few dozen of his favorite concubines, all of them young, beautiful, carefully selected, the finest women of breeding age sieved and weeded out of a billion people. Not only were they the finest in terms of appearance, figure, and beauty, but also singing, dancing, et cetera. They were also meticulously screened for loyalty to Chairman Mao, by confessing how much they have worshiped Mao, what they have done to protect the image of Mao, etc.

“For years, I had stayed away where I knew Mao was entertaining his female guests, feigning ignorance. But as he grew old, he became more blatant and more promiscuous in his sexual activity. Mao had met a new clerk in the Bureau of Confidential Matters, a young, white-skinned woman with clear, dark eyes and delicately arched eyebrows. She had attracted Mao at once when she told the Chairman how she had defended him against his detractors when she was in school. Many of her schoolmates had tried to vilify the Chairman, and she fought against those schoolmates and was even beaten for her devotion to the Chairman.

“After that, the young woman was with Mao everyday and their relationship became public. She accompanied Mao to Shanghai, and was with him day and night. Mao was inexhaustible and danced with her until 1 or 2 in the morning. She was also friendly with Mao’s other women, and especially with Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing.” The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao’s Personal Physician by Dr. Li Zhisui, page 202

Mao had openly bragged that the first emperor of China, “the yellow emperor”, became immortal by having sex with one thousand young virgins, and he not only wished, but, given his absolute power over his Chinese subjects, also was able to do just exactly that. His wife, Jiang Qing, herself a former actress of supreme beauty (much like Xi Jinping’s wife Peng Liyuan who was a famous singer, eerily) often suffered from neurasthenia and she was constantly worried that Chairman Mao might abandon her. So in order to prove her complete royalty to Mao, she overreached to the extreme in her zealotry and devotion to Mao and was the cause of mass misery to the people around her. Valuing her royalty, Mao used her as his surrogate to initiate the Cultural Revolution, Cult of Mao-worship, and through her he arraigned the arrests, tortures, and imprisonment of political rivals such as Liu Shaoqing, Deng Xiaoping, Peng Dehuai, and many more. In some way Jiang Qing was also like the Lüshi of Emperor Gaozu of Han Liu Bang 漢高祖劉邦.

Anyone who showed the slightest, faintest disroyality to Mao was promptly subjected to struggle sessions which consisted of public humiliation and beatings, and then, either exiled or put to death. For instance, one of Mao’s concubines once complained to another one with the following words: “If we are prostitutes, we should get paid. If we are concubines, we should be given the title. What are we?”

The woman with whom she was conversing reported her to Jiang Qing, and she was promptly arrested and imprisoned and was never heard again. She had completely disappeared, and no one knew what happened to her since.

A young ethnic Chinese woman from Indonesia who had suffered racial discrimination and attacks in Indonesia, joined the Chinese Communist Party and went back to become a piano teacher in mainland China. She was publicly humiliated during the Cultural Revolution. All her tormentors were her former students. During one struggle session, she was stripped naked, and the boys from her class poured boiling water all over her body, causing her to die a slow and painful death.

Wang Dongxing, the general responsible for overseeing Mao’s personal security guards, had organized numerous Cultural Work Troupes from all over China pooling all the prettiest woman into Zhongnanhai, and their sole purpose was to entertain and provide pleasure to the supreme ruler of China: Mao Zedong.

When the master eats meat, the servants get to drink the meat soup, as the Chinese saying goes. Almost all the top generals of the Chinese Communist Party at the time had multiple wives, often 30 or 40 years younger than themselves. Ai Bei, the illegitimate daughter of the then Premier Zhou Enlai, is now living in America and married to an American man, and she wrote an autobiographical novel called “To call father is too hard”(叫父親太沉重), detailing her involvement with her father, and caused some controversy among the mainland Chinese slaves, who are still living under the impression that the founders of their Chinese Communist Party were all saints. Most historians believe that what Ai Bei had told was true, but, of course, the Chinese themselves vehemently deny it and ordered their goons of “little pinks” and “50 cent” to send her death threats everyday.

The Great Chinese Famine

“Mao was still losing face because of the food crisis [The Great Chinese Famine] and did not want to indulge in extravagance when so many ordinary people were starving to death … however, the feast that night was still so extravagant, consisting of the finest, the most expensive delicacies Chinese cuisine can offer. … Midway through the course of meal, Wang turned to me and whispered, ‘It’s so shameful for us to be consuming such a feast, when people outside are starving and resorting to cannibalism.’” ibid. page 190

When you have absolute power, when over 1 billion people literally think you are a god, you can do anything you want, and this is exactly what Mao did. Mao had many very strange idiosyncrasies, such as never brushing his teeth, do not sleep until 5 or 6 in the morning and then sleep all the way until afternoon (just like Karl Marx!), likes to swimming in rivers full of human feces, and never taking showers.

Instead of taking showers, “he chose to wash himself with the bodies of females whom he slept with.” (ibid. page 379) Mao had a few hundred female nurses whose sole job was to clean Mao’s body. He ordered them to lick his body wherever he felt it was too dirty, such as his armpits, his ass crack, and the areas between each toes on his feet. Instead of being grossed out, the nurses wore it as a badge of honor to have served the Chairman in this way. In one particular instance, a nurse was allowed to massage and lick the feet of Mao and afterward, she went home and bragged to everyone that she was now covered with gold because she touched the feet of the Chairman. A few days later, she was imprisoned by Jiang Qing and was never seen again. No one was allowed to communicate to the outside world about the affairs in Zhongnanhai, the secret compound housing the emperors of the Communist China, from Mao Zedong, all the way to the current paramount leader of China: Xi Jinping.

“Outside the protective walls of Zhongnanhai, beyond the special privileges of the country’s leader, the people of China were starving. Death toll was in the millions, and before the famine was over, tens of millions more would die. As many of my countrymen suffered, I sat with Lin Ke and Wang Jiingxian, with Ye Zilong and Li Yinqiao, and with the leadership of Zhejiang and we celebrated the 66th birthday of our emperor Mao Zedong. Our tables were laden with delicacies of rarest meat and fish. … But I was miserable. I lived in a world apart. We in Group One had no rule. We were above the law. It was a paradise, free from all restraint, subject only to the whim of Mao and the guilt that gnawed those of us whose conscience remained intact.” Ibid. page 202

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

In addition to the above idiosyncrasies, during the Cultural Revolution, Mao enjoyed watching his political opponents being tortured. For instance, while General Peng Dehuai was being beaten and humiliated by a group of red guards in an adjacent room, Mao was sitting behind the wall and watching the whole process. In another instance, when Liu Shaoqi was sick with cancer, Mao refused to give any pain medication to Liu, causing him to suffer extreme pain and when one of his guards described to Mao that Liu, lying sick in bed with cancer, was moaning in horrible pain, Mao smiled at the suffering he was causing.

His private doctor describes that during this period, at the height of Cultural Revolution, Mao’s sexual libido also increased immensely and he would have sex with multiple girls every single night. Jiang Qing, Mao’s wife, was fully aware of it, and she even bragged to the doctor Li Zhisui that no one can compare to Mao in terms of sexual prowess, just like no one can gain the upper hand against him politically.

And during periods when he was not getting his way politically, such as immediately after the failure of Great Leap Forward, his sexual libido also suffered, and was exasperated when his physician was not able to give him any medication to cure his erectile dysfunction.

To this day Mao is revered among the Chinese people as their god, and Mao’s many male descendants such as Mao Xinyu, 毛新宇, continue to be worshipped, adored, and given special prestige in China. Mao Xinyu himself has admitted that many Chinese people, especially Chinese women, have lavished on him the worship and praise that they had once lavished on his grandfather, Mao Zedong.

Sources and references:

The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao’s Personal Physician by Li Zhisui.

“A Madman’s Diary” (Chinese: 狂人日記; pinyin: Kuángrén Rìjì) by Lu Xun

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